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Lots of apps and places to go for info. We sometimes show the ISS to folks who've never seen it.

In the 60s I watched (from NJ) rocket launches in VA, a few auroras and several satellites, the brightest of which was Echo (a radar ranging balloon with a key transmitter in MA). Also did some meteor watching. One night my father got curious and wanted to see Echo so I took him out for a gander and while we happened to be gazing down, all of a sudden saw our shadows on the ground- the brightest meteor I've ever seen went horizon to horizon. He thought that's what I saw when meteor watching and I couldn't bring myself to tell him you could watch for lifetimes and never see another like it.

Related note: there is a partial lunar eclipse Friday 10/18. I don't have details except that it will peak (?) shortly after moonrise. Anyone more astronomically knowledgeable that can fill in details?

I have an app on my 'droid called Space Junk. Constellations, sats, etc.

Coolest thing I've seen so far was one winter night I was relaxing in the spa and saw something moving east to west. Thought it was an aircraft but, hmmmm....no position lights, no strobes. What the heck is it? Realized it was the ISS. Then not 10 seconds later, here comes another one, right behind it. No, there aren't two.......holy crap! That's the Shuttle!!

Related note: there is a partial lunar eclipse Friday 10/18. I don't have details except that it will peak (?) shortly after moonrise. Anyone more astronomically knowledgeable that can fill in details?

pete

Eclipse will start at 1940 pm (7:40) EST on the east coast. It is only a partial not a full in the northeast anyway. For those of you who will see it ...... enjoy the show!

In between the snow, the sky has been real clear- Outer Limits clear but no satellites.

My eyes don't work as well as they used to work, but in the winter with clear skies, it's usually easy to see the birds. Last time I really looked was at Meat Cove in Nova Scotia, lying on a picnic table. There were dozens of them.

When I was a kid we went outside to watch Sputnik (the first man-made satellite) go overhead. Later we were able to pick up its feeble radio beacon on our ham radio receiver. There wasn't much danger of Sputnik crashing into another satellite - it was the only one up there. Now the only thing that prevents satellite traffic accidents is that they are all going in the same direction, more or less. It's quite a junkyard, though.

pete I've learned so much from my mistakes I think I'll make a few more.

Sputnik 1 burned up on 4 January 1958, as it fell from orbit upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, after travelling about 70 million km (43.5 million miles) and spending 3 months in orbit
....RIP Sput